Article ID: 169257
Article Last Modified on 5/1/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q169257
SUMMARY
Certain SourceSafe operations by default implicitly GET a local copy of a file. This is partially documented in the Online Help for the -G command line option
MORE INFORMATION
The following commands perform a GET when they are executed from the command line or the Visual SourceSafe Explorer:
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Recover
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This is by design. SourceSafe assumes that changes made to files in a project should be echoed to the project's working folder (directory). The GET does not happen under two conditions:
- If there is no working folder set for the project in the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.
- When you use the -G- switch on the command line.
For some of these operations, the Visual SourceSafe Explorer provides a way to override the default behavior. For more information, please refer to the User's guide and Online Help for the individual commands.
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